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The Doctor in History, Literature and Folk-Lore

by William Andrews

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  1. 1Preface
  2. 2Barber-Surgeons
  3. 3Touching for the King’s Evil
  4. 4Visiting Patients
  5. 5Assaying Meat and Drink
  6. 6The Gold-headed Cane
  7. 7Magic and Medicine
  8. 8Chaucer’s Doctor of Physic
  9. 9The Doctors Shakespeare Knew
  10. 10Dickens’ Doctors
  11. 11Famous Literary Doctors
  12. 12The “Doctor” in Time of Pestilence
  13. 13Mountebanks and Medicine
  14. 14The Strange Story of the Fight With the Small-Pox
  15. 15Burkers and Body-Snatchers
  16. 16Reminiscences of the Cholera
  17. 17Some Old Doctors
  18. 18The Lee Penny
  19. 19How Our Fathers Were Physicked
  20. 20Medical Folk-Lore
  21. 21Of Physicians and Their Fees

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